no sbin directories in $PATH for root
Mike Fedyk
mfedyk at matchmail.com
Mon Jun 21 22:04:28 UTC 2004
>>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>>>On a fresh fc2 install, suing to root doesn't update the path to contain
>>>/sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin.
>>>
>>>Has anyone else had this problem?
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:45:55 +0100, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
>>"su root" doesn't do that. "su - root" does. That's how su has always
>>worked.
>>
I've been using debian since 1999, and having the path modified for
non-login shells seems normal to me. Is there any drawback where
modifying $PATH for non-login shells might cause trouble?
Erik Espinoza wrote:
> Would you happen to be using an old version of the j2re from Dag? He
> defaulted the path improperly in /etc/profile.d/java.sh. It was
> changed in subsequent versions however.
Name : j2re
Version : 1.4.2
Release : 8.1.fc2.dag
Mike
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